KARACHI, April 30: Two persons committed suicide in separate incidents in different parts of the city on Wednesday.
Police said that Muhammad Fayyaz, aged 35, committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in his house in Baldia Town on Wednesday morning.
A minibus conductor of route (U-5), Fayyaz was facing poor financial conditions and his wife had recently left him for her parents house. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for the postmortem examination.
In another incident, a teenager committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance in his house in North Karachi early Wednesday morning.
Police said that Muhammad Afzal, aged 18, consumed some poisonous substance after his elder brother scolded him over some domestic matter. He was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he died during treatment.
FIRE: A young man died of suffocation during a fire which broke out at a foam godown in Liaquatabad on Wednesday.
According to reports, welding work was in progress on the windows of a foam godown at the Ibne Sina furniture market in Liaquatabad No.4, when the foams stored at the floor caught fire.
The fire spread quickly to the remaining two floors of the three-storey building, consuming hundreds of foams.
Shahid Raza, who had came from Punjab to visit his brother’s business, was caught in the fire and inhaled smoke. He was rescued by the firemen working at the site.
However, he fell unconscious and was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A spokesman for the fire department said that eleven fire-tenders worked for several hours to control the fire.
According to a statment issued by the Liaquatabad Town, the fire was caused by a short circuit.
The Nazim Liaquatabad, police and rangers also reached the spot.
The town Nazim ordered the survey of the rest of the buildings in the area where faculty wiring might cause similar incident in future, the statment added.
